The Journey of a Beef Cow

“Hey kids” Casually talks about killing cows

I can just imagine Sam pounding his desk to try and recreate the sound of a cows skull being caved it with a stunner

1:54 I had no idea that was supposed to be a surgical mask. I thought the dude was just way too enthusiastic about punching a hole into a cow's skull.

So, my second favourite horror fiction podcast, The Magnus Archives, delves into and categorizes different aspects of human fear. It covers everything from maggots to existential loneliness to insanity. One of the aspects of horror it explores in detail is that of meat, flesh, and slaughter. One episode looks into the life of a slaughterhouse worker and the affects it can have on the psyche. That's how I first learned about meat production practices. Here's a couple excerpts. "Weirdest thing is, after awhile you start to kind of see people as meat too. Not in a food sort of way, you know. I don’t wanna eat my co-workers. It’s just that, when you spend all day taking these living, breathing creatures – animals that move and cry and tremble in fear – and you turn them into lifeless blocks of dead flesh, it’s hard to believe in any special spark that makes us humans any different. We run and shout and file on through our lives as simply as any cow, and after a while you can’t help but realise that we could turn into a lifeless carcass just as easily. Easier, even, given how much smaller we are. I mean, I’m not some weird killer or anything, but after a while it’s hard not to see everyone as moving meat" "It all started on the killing floor. I was in charge of the bolt gun. Technically, the animals we slaughter are killed by bleeding them out, something about the meat quality, I think, but it’s the bolt gun that means they don’t notice. They call it “stunning”, but that’s never sat quite right with me. You drive a bolt right into the animal’s brain, destroying just the right part of it so that they can be bled without resistance, and apparently without pain. I’ve only ever done the stunning; I’ve never been on the bleed crew, so I guess in some ways you could say I’ve never actually killed any of the animals. And sure, maybe they might still have a bit of movement in them after the bolt, and maybe their heart still beats, but for all they talk about “stunning” or “irreversible brain damage”, pulling that trigger sure felt like killing to me" There's no point to this, I just thought it was an interesting addition, The Magnus Archives is a very thought provoking fiction podcast if you like experimental narrative horror, and uhhh I just think it's interesting to think about

* gets to hot dog part* *chews hot dog slightly slower *

You can eat the floor! that's cool

My biology teacher worked at a slaughter house for 6 years. She would regale us with horror stories of the worst days she spent there. Pretty interesting.

"beauty is only skin-deep, but manure runs to the core" is not the sort of wisdom i expected to hear from a video about brutally mutilating cows. great work, sam

This is a stunner , here is a demonstration : HEADSHOT

"even American's couldn't stomach" but Tarare could

I am now going to start refering to grazing as "eating the floor". Thanks Sam.

Yeah that seems accurate for more commercial places. My grandfather worked on his parents farm when he was younger, and he was telling me about how the process worked on their farm. I’ve also seen it myself with deer which is different in the obvious ways, but basically, the cows would be born, eat grass, grow up, and once they were old enough (2-3 years) they would just shoot them in the head out back, wash the cow, strip the skin off (then send it to the tanners to be turned into leather) remove the bones, guts, and hooves. Afterwards the remaining meat would be sent to the butcher where the butcher would take some of the meat (as the price) and cut it up for them and send it back, ready to be cooked and eaten.

I love how in his driver license it says “sex: yes please”

Send it down the line Evacuate the spine Bifurcate the hind Reticulate the spline Reoccupy the Rhine

Doing some rough math, when Craig was born, he was shot into the brick wall in 3 frames. The average adult cow is ~100 inches long Taking a ss into photoshop, the cow was 500 pixels long, with the gap to the wall also being 500 pixels. With a distance of ~100 inches, and the infant taking 3 frames to hit the wall, and the animation being displayed in 24fps. Doing rough conversions, Craig hit the brick wall at just under 30 mph, or ~45kph Edit: Thats a KE value of just under 3,000 joules, or roughly the same of a 2003 chevy impala going 5 mph

i honestly don't find the leftover tidbits being used for less scrupulous meats as disturbing as other people around me do. it actually makes me happy, as to me, meat is meat, and knowing nothing goes to waste makes me happier than hearing "we left some bits out because they 'looked gross'"

"This device is called a stunner. Here's a demonstration of how it works." Thunk

rip craig my homie always kept it real on the streets

0:40 daaamn that sound effect LMAO 💀

fun (or not so fun) fact: the stunner shown around 2:00 is the weapon Anton Chigurh from no country for old men carries around (his was an older type that uses compressed air, which is why he carried around the large air tank), if anyone saw the movie and was curious what his weapon was like I initially was.